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* was expressed in 1931 in a reader letter to a science fiction magazine that discussed: | * was expressed in 1931 in a reader letter to a science fiction magazine that discussed: | ||
<pre>"the age-old argument of preventing your birth by killing your grandparents"</pre> | <pre>"the age-old argument of preventing your birth by killing your grandparents"</pre> | ||
==== Utopia paradox ==== | |||
* the idea that what happened in the past could or should have been different | |||
* the fallacy occurs from transposing an historical moment into the present | |||
** would these historical actors be satisfied with conditions of today? | |||
** if so, what would they have done differently | |||
* aside from its impossibility, the Utopian paradox misunderstands history: | |||
**by confusing what ''actually'' happened with what the observer ''wishes'' had happened | |||
== Effects == | == Effects == | ||